Three days later... 9:00 AM GMT,

that is 3:00 AM in Richmond, Indiana. 

Happy, alone in bed, is sound asleep -

of course, it is 3:00 AM!

And her cell phone RINGS.

Happy sits straight up and her eyes
open wide. The cell RINGS again.

Happy looks over at the blinking light
on the phone, "Oh dear God." 

And it RINGS again. 

She can't pick it up.
She's too frightened. 

It RINGS once more and then stops.

Happy catches her breath and then
picks up the phone. She flips
it open. The screen lights up.
She waits.. and then:

CELL SCREEN: 

"You have 1 new message!"

Happy calls in for the message.

A Strange Creepy Voice begins:

"THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR HAPPY ROGERS.
PLEASE LISTEN CLOSELY. YOUR HELP IS
REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY. THE FOLLOWING
IS ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU
WILL NEED.

BEGIN YOUR MISSION IN A PUBLIC PLACE.
LASTING IMPRESSIONS WILL BE MADE.
OFFER A NOD TO A STRANGER.
GUIDANCE WILL BE GIVEN WHEN NEEDED.
SPECIAL DELIVERIES WILL BE EXECUTED.
PLEASE DO NOT FEAR.
OUR DUTY, TO FIND THE ORDINARY MAN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME."

(the speaker clears his throat)

"AND REMEMBER.."SAMMEEES" COMES
BEFORE ALL OF THIS."

CLICK

Happy runs down the hall!

"They called! I have no idea what
they were talking about but I have
a mission!"

The World was all before them,

where to choose...

The sun rises outside Addison's office window

as he reads aloud from a very worn copy of

Paradise Lost by John Milton,

"Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way." 

Coffee is Cookin'

and the first code is broken.

Barney and Betty, still in their pajamas,
have been up for hours. Barney puts on
another pot of coffee. Betty is waiting
for the printer to spit out a piece of
paper.

(And, yes, they both wear full-out pajamas.
Betty loves florals. Barney loves plaids.)

Their open floor plan apartment is dedicated
to gaming - specifically Alternate Reality Gaming.
Multiple computers, monitors, servers and every
tech gadget ever imagined to facilitate their 

researching, decoding & deciphering
lifestyle decorates their living space.

Betty waves the print-out at Barney,
"Why would they make this so easy?"

Barney eyes the coffee he just
measured out, "I've completely lost
count of my scoops. Look at this.
Does this look like the right amount?"

"I just asked you a question, sweetie."

"I heard you, but I'm also in
charge of coffee detail."

"Put in another scoop."

"You didn't look."

"Doesn't matter. Either way, one more
is all good."

Barney tosses in a scoop and closes the
coffee maker.

Betty places the print-out on the counter,
"This is too craaaazy easy."

Barney looks at it and shrugs, "Maybe the
Puppet Master doesn't want to scare off the
newbies."

Betty's face is suddenly serious, "It is a 

blogspot address! Nothing new here, people!"

(near to tears)

"I need a challenge in my life, sweetie!"

(taps the paper)

"This may be too frakkin' novice to take me 

where I'm going."

Barney stops her, "Why are you doing A me?"

"I'm not doing A you."

Barney continues, "Oh yeah, you are doing
exactly what I did a few days ago with the
pink card.  One simple code and you jump?

Stop and let's check out blogspot."

Betty is still lost in her emotion,
"I need to be expanding right now.
The old 'first letter of the sentence' code
doesn't excite my gray matter anymore."

Barney inexplicably starts jumping up
and down like Tigger.

Betty is finally quiet. 

Barney stops jumping, "Thank you, 

Madame ARG.  Now, at least check 

out the blogspot address and then 

we can set up a forum for the players.  

And for what it is worth, I believe this 

one is special."

Betty is half-hearted, "It has one week
to get special."

Barney shuffles over to the computers, "I
may be the only true Sammeee in this
house."

elephants sleep standing up

It is noon.

Trinket is still in bed
but not asleep. She is
staring at the little ceramic
elephant that sits next to

her computer.

SOUND there is a KNOCK on
her bedroom door.

Old Landlady calls out, 

"Are you in there?"

Trinket closes her eyes.

The bedroom door opens and the
Old Landlady quietly enters.

Trinket keeps her eyes closed.

Old Landlady whispers, "I'm going 

to the grocery store. Don't worry.
You don't have to help me.  I like to 

get my own groceries.  I consider it 

my workout."

Trinket doesn't flinch.

Old Landlady speaks a little louder, 

"Is there anything that you need, dear?"

Trinket keeps her eyes closed.

The Old Landlandy shakes the bed
a bit, but Trinket doesn't give in.

Old Landlady nearly shouts, "I hope 

you're not dead, dear."

Trinket still doesn't give in -
and the Old Landlady exits.

we've got the world by a string

Dwin is at the kitchen table with
BARRY (45) and LAURA SMITH (35), 

his foster parents. The Smiths are "A
Typical" North of Montana, Santa Monica.
They are somewhat successful, somewhat wealthy

and somewhat bored/salamander looking from 

their recent eye lifts and or botox injections.
They are both devouring the L.A. Times
and a healthy breakfast.

Dwin quietly crunches his cereal.

Barry speaks without looking up from the paper,
"You got plans today?" 

Dwin's not sure if he's speaking to him or Laura. 

Barry smiles at Dwin, "You hanging with some 

friends or something today?" 

Dwin quickly wipes his mouth, "I thought I might 

hang out here and do some stuff." 

Barry nods, "I hear you. Nothing like a little alone 

time. Right, bud?" 

Dwin sweetly agrees.

Higgs smiles.

We hear the end
of the haunting
message again:

PLEASE DO NOT FEAR.
OUR DUTY, TO FIND THE ORDINARY MAN.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME."

(the speaker clears his throat)

"AND REMEMBER.."SAMMEEES" COMES
BEFORE ALL OF THIS."

CLICK

Higgs' fingers type the blogspot
address into his computer.

Higgs smiles again.

Dwin smiles

as he clicks and answers the
R U A Sammeee?

question.

Happy Rogers smiles.

Happy is in her "office slash den".
Seated at her computer, she calls out,
"It says, 'This is a site for Sammeees only,

chances are, if you found this site, you
are a Sammeee'.  What should I do now?"

Ben yells from his bedroom,

"Read the rest of the web page... 
to yourself!"

"This is exciting, Ben!"

"Hooray for you, Mom."

"Are you being sarcastic?"

There is a long pause before Ben answers,

"R U A Sammeee?"

"Funny, Ben."

Happy continues, "There is a photo

of an industrial looking place.  Looks

like a building was torn down.  There

is also some tall grass."

"Beneath the photo is some text.  It says

they received a manila envelope with two

notes.  The two notes are strange."

Ben yells from his bedroom again, "How are

they strange?"

Happy scribbles down letters while she

answers Ben, "Everything is in lower case letters

except an F - I - N - D - P - E - E - P and an S.

What does that mean?"

Ben yells out, "Find Peeps."

ground control, can you hear me?

Barney and Betty are seated 

at their computers.  Images fly by 

on the three monitors in front of them, 

as they dissect the clues on the blogspot page.

Betty examines the photo on the screen: "Fell from the sky here? I don't see anyone. Do you?"

"Go to black and white."

Barney turns to Betty,

"WTF? Do you think new city is New York?"

Betty studies the photo,
"Could be.  I don't see an Ordinary Man in

this photo."  She swings around and looks

at Barney, "What is an Ordinary Man?"

Barney shrugs, "Nobody we know."

"What is an Ordinary Man?"

Happy sips her tea.

Happy sips her tea and mulls out
loud, "Peeps?" She calls out to Ben 

again, "The ordinary man that
fell from the sky is named Peeps?"

Ben yells down the hallway, 

"Incredibly stupid name."

Happy stares at the computer screen,
"Peeps is a nice name."

RIGHT CLICK THE SOURCE!

Higgs right clicks his mouse.

Higgs' monitor shows the source
page of the R U A Sammeee? website.
The source page is a scramble of letters,
words and symbols.

Higgs scrolls down to the foot
of the page and he suddenly laughs,
"Tada."

Higgs' screen reads,

"we will be contacting you with further instructions if you email us and let us know when you will be home-- our email address is ruasammeee at aol dot com. good luck, sammeee-- remember the land of Spoocheee is always GMT and EWR is the last stop for now"

Higgs tilts his head, 

"EWR is the last stop for now?"

Dwin composes

an email.

To whom it may concern,
I will be home until Monday at 7:40 AM.
Thank you for your time.
Dwin

p.s. Is Peeps in Newark, New Jersey?

The air in Newark, New Jersey is disgusting. Isn't it?

Betty pounds away at
her laptop and, "Got it.
EWR is defintely the
airport code for Newark
International Airport.  So,
Peeps is somewhere in Newark."

Barney laughs, "Poor
Peeps probably fell
from the sky after
he breathed the air."

Shhh!!! This is a library!!!

As Trinket approaches the library, the GUY that scared 

the sh*t out of her (at the housing bulletin board) 

follows her around the revolving door.

The GUY calls to her, "Hey!"

Trinket keeps moving into the library.

The GUY follows her, "Hey, I want to--"

A librarian interrupts, "Shhh! This is a library!"

The GUY "shhh's" and quietly continues after Trinket, 

"I'm the guy from the other day. I'm sorry if I freaked 

you out but honestly I didn't think I sounded that scary. 

I was more trying to be funny."

Trinket stops.

The GUY stops too and smiles, "Hi."

Trinket can hardly be bothered but, "Hi."

"I'm Ted."

Trinket doesn't say anything.

So, Ted rambles on, "That pink sammeee flyer-card, 

whatever, was an ARG announcement and I was just 

doing my funny scary ARG voice."

Trinket shifts her weight, "Why would anyone have a 

scary ARG voice?"

He corrects her, "Funny scary."

"Do you play Alternate Reality Games, Ted?"

"I have, but I'm not right now. I'm not a game nut or 

anything but they can be amusing."

"What would make someone a game nut, Ted?"

"You know, 24-7. All game all the time."

He notices Trinket deadeye staring him, "Not that 

there's anything wrong with that if that's your thing. 

Right?"

Trinket doesn't answer him.

And Ted can't take the silence, "So your reaction was 

pretty intense. Very Sarah Connor slash old school Buffy."

Trinket shrugs, "Are we through here, Ted?"

"Uh.. yeah."

"Great. See you around, Ted."

Trinket heads behind the counter. 

Ted watches her disappear into the back room. 

She's a librarian aide.

cute marshmallow easter birds

"Endgame" by R.E.M. plays.

Betty looks over at the door, "Whenever I think 

about Peeps I can't help but picture those cute 

marshmallow easter birds."

Barney, on the other side of the apartment,
is typing away at the computer. "I love those.
Hey, we've now got two fellow Sammeees in
the official Sammeee chat room.  They also 

found the extra messages in the source code.

Higgs and Dwin. They're both from California."
Barney laughs, "Higgs is hilarious. Seems smart.
He specs that Spoocheee is derived from Vespucci,
some guy that said he was the first European to come
to the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci. Don’t know how
it ties into the Peeps story but it’s not a bad spec.
And Dwin seems shy or young or both."

Betty doesn't take her eyes off the
front door, "I bet California is a nice 

place to live."

THE DOORBELL RINGS.

Barney squeals and jumps up from
the computer, "Dwin says his doorbell 

just rang too!"

Betty smiles, "Who do you suppose?"

home alone

Dwin, home alone, stands
on his tiptoes and peeks out
the window of the door.

Dwin eyeballs a clean cut guy
about twenty standing there with a
box. He sees Dwin and waves,
"Are you Dwin?"

Dwin can barely breathe, "Yes."

The clean cut guy smiles, "Do you mind 

signing for this?"

Was that the door bell?

Happy is at her post in front
of the computer re-reading
the blog page again.

The doorbell RINGS.

Happy looks at the clock.
Clock says 9:45 PM.

Happy shouts down the hallway,
"Was that the door bell?"

The door bell RINGS again.

Ben sticks his head out of
his bedroom door, "That is indeed
the doorbell."

Happy stops at the top of the stairs,

"It is nearly ten o'clock."

"Did you give our address to that ARG?"

Happy is now speaking in a hushed tone,
"I only did what you told me to do!
I told them that I would be
home but I didn't say where
my home is located!"

The door bell RINGS again.

Happy and Ben hurry down the stairs.

Happy opens the cellar door. Ben runs
down and comes back up with a broom
and a shovel. The twosome walk shoulder
to shoulder to the front door.

The doorbell RINGS again.

Happy screams!

A voice from outside says, "I'm sorry to
bother you, but I have a package for
Happy Rogers."

Ben looks out the peep hole, "Leave it
on the stoop."

"I'm sorry, sir, but I am instructed to
only leave this in the hands
of Happy Rogers.  Are you
Happy Rogers?"

Ben looks at his Mom.

Happy takes a deep breath, "Please
do not fear. Please do not fear."
She opens the door.

The messenger smiles, "Happy Rogers?"

Happy courageously nods.

He hands her the box,
"Congratulations, sammeee."

Happy takes the small cardboard box.

The messenger turns and disappears
into the darkness.

Happy closes the door and
begins to cry.

That was the doorbell

Higgs, with the box 

in one hand and a 

cocktail in the other, 

seems amused as

he watches the 

messenger get into 

his car. Higgs waves 

his glass and hollars,

"Have a great night, 

whoever you are."  

The messenger BEEPS 

and drives away.

That was the doorbell

Betty dramatically carries the box

across the apartment and places it
on the kitchen counter. She and
Barney stand there and look at it.

That was the doorbell

Dwin is leaning against the closed
front door.  He holds his box tightly 

against his chest and breathes.

As Trinket walks down the library steps,

the lights go out behind her.

Trinket picks up her pace
as she heads across the quad
and passes the school's pool.

The sounds of whistles and
splashing fill the night air.

Trinket stops at the bike rack
and unlocks her bike.

Trinket barrels across the campus

and onto Main Street.  

Her bike turns onto Birch Street

and she makes a quick right

into her driveway.

Trinket quietly unlocks the 

front door and enters the house. 

The Old Landlady immediately

shuffles out of her bedroom, 

"You're late, dear."

Trinket smiles, "I'm so sorry.
It was my night to close down
the computers.” 

The Old Landlady sits down on the 

sofa, “Did you get any dinner?” 

“Not yet.”

“I made a lasagna. I want you
to warm it up, dear.” 

“Lasagna sounds great. Thank you.
Would it be alright if I put in a
load of laundry while I’m eating?”

The Old Landlady waves her off,
“Don’t worry about me, dear. I’ll be 

up for a few hours.  I want to watch

the late news tonight.”

Trinket puts the lasagna into
the oven.

Trinket stuffs her laundry into
the washer.

The doorman holds the door as

Addison steps out of the "One
Times Square" building.

Addison turns right and heads to the 

edge of the Times Square Island.  He 

waits on the red light. 

A NUN, across the street, begins

to sing, "I've got a brand new pair

of roller skates, you've got a brand

new key..."

Addison looks across the street and

sees the Nun staring directly at him. 

The Nun stops singing and points to 

the neon blur above them.

Addison turns his head and looks up
at all the blinking and flashing lights.

The washer stopped.

Trinket is seated at her computer
eating the lasagna.

The Old Landlady calls out from
the livingroom, “The washer stopped.”

Trinket walks through the livingroom.
Only the blue glow from the television
lights the room. The Old Landlady
smiles, “Don’t forget to wipe down
the washer with the sponge.”

Trinket opens the washer and dumps
the contents into the dryer. She reaches
into the washer and wipes it carefully

with the sponge. Trinket stops and

pulls out the very wet pink card.

Trinket looks closer at the

little pink card.

Trinket checks that the Old
Landlandy is still watching
television.

Trinket picks up the phone
and quietly dials the old rotary
and listens.

"Addison! Addison!"

Addison swings around and sees
a bike messenger with a manila
envelope under his arm barreling
toward him, "I'm sorry to bother
you, but is your name Addison?"

Addison hesitates and then, "Yes."

"I thought you might be. I saw
you come out of that building and
hoped I hadn't missed you."

Addison's confused, "Is this about

the TMA account?"

The messenger's demeanor suddenly
changes and he becomes threateningly
serious.  He hands Addison the envelope,
"Prove your worth."

Addison just stands there with the envelope.

"Good luck, Sammeee." The messenger
crosses the street to the Nun, and 

the two disappear into the crowd.

Addison can't move.

Trinket speaks softly into the phone,

"If I'm not here, you can try to leave
a message but I might not get it.
My screen name is Trinket

and I totally want to help you."

Trinket hangs up the phone.

As Trinket quietly walks back to
her bedroom,"Goodnight."

The Old Landlady does not look
up from the television, "Sleep well,
dear."

As the light switches to green,

Addison heads across the street and

uptown.

A white van stops and then slowly 

backups along side Addison.  

The passenger window rolls down 

and "divine" by korn blasts out.  

Addison, a bit freaked out, crosses 

Broadway and runs down into the 

subway.

I hide, only to defy you
Take away the only love inside you
I see your face through everyone
Inside I've just begun

You think I'm out to scare you
I'm only out to prepare you
For when you stop and turn around
Your body's going down

You're gonna waste your time
Your life will soon be mine
You're definitely one of a kind
And your suffering 'cause of me is divine